Better support for Chromebooks
Chromebooks do have very limited hardware in terms of storage and RAM. But it is still the cheapest solution to a truly open source notebook, as it allows to replace its coreboot based bootloader with your own coreboot and payload (f.e. Tiano Core or Seabios).
By installing a standard proposal of Tumbleweed or Leap with btrfs you will be left with about 2-3 GB of free storage on a 16 GB eMMC storage for installing packages and saving files. In addition to that many features like hibernation, suspend and function buttons (TTY switching) don't work out of the box.
There is a special Ubuntu based distribution for Chromebooks available called "Gallium OS" (https://galliumos.org/). They do have a lot of patches and some neat configuration for XFCE4 to make it perfectly work on Chromebooks by still looking very nice and offering a lot of storage. But you know what it lacks? Correct, some Geeko love ;)
In this project following steps could be done to improve the openSUSE support on Chromebooks:
- port Chromebook specific patches of "Gallium OS" to Factory and upstream them if necessary/possible
- custom setup proposal for Chromebooks in Tumbleweed or a custom Image for Chromebooks
- including a modified XFCE configuration with openSUSE branding
- minimum selection of packages necessary for a proper desktop session (f.e. replace LibreOffice with smaller solutions)
- openSUSE Leap 15 Image for Chromebooks
- including a modified XFCE configuration with openSUSE branding
- minimum selection of packages necessary for a proper desktop session (f.e. replace LibreOffice with smaller solutions)
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over 5 years ago by suntorytimed | Reply
I can provide test hardware (Dell Chromebook 11 Education and Asus C200MA) with Coreboot and Tiano Core on it.
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over 5 years ago by suntorytimed | Reply
The more I think about it, the more I want to do this as a hacker myself. Too many project ideas but not enough time
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over 5 years ago by mbrugger | Reply
You know that we have support for an arm based chromebook? https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:ARMChromebook ask @algraf for more info
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You know that we have support for an arm based chromebook? https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:ARMChromebook ask @algraf for more info
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The more I think about it, the more I want to do this as a hacker myself. Too many project ideas but not enough time
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